Edison Loses $900,000 Case Over Strike Death

May 08, 1992

An Illinois Appeallate Court on Thursday upheld a $900,000 judgment awarded to the widow of a construction worker who was killed in a traffic accident in 1982 while attempting to flee from strikers at Commonwealth Edison`s LaSalle County nuclear power plant.

In appealing, Edison argued that it wasn`t liable because David Slager had left the property when his car collided with a semitrailer truck.